USAID_Vietnam Architect & Engineer Services for Dioxin Remediation at Bien Hoa Airbase Area

The military airbase at Bien Hoa is the largest dioxin contamination "hotspot" in Vietnam. This is due to past usage, storage, and handling of Agent Orange and other herbicides during the U.S.-Vietnam War with elevated levels of dioxin remaining in soils and sediments decades later. The Environmental Remediation at Bien Hoa Airbase (the Project) is one of the highest priority U.S. Government activities in Vietnam. The planned remediation effort at Bien Hoa furthers a number of high-level U.S. foreign policy objectives, including: resolving a war legacy issue, promoting economic growth, and improving environmental and health conditions.
A & E Bien Hoa objectives are as follows:
· Development of Project Masterplan (Masterplan) for the Bien Hoa Airbase Area (Site).
· Provide professional engineering services to implement the Project Masterplan.
· Build USAID-GVN working relationships in Project implementation.
· Increase GVN environmental remediation capacity.
The A & E Contractor will work closely with USAID and representatives of the GVN to create a Project Masterplan which finalizes the remedial approach and selects the preferred treatment technology(ies) for dioxin remediation (CLIN 1). During and after Masterplan development and approval, the A & E Contractor must also provide detailed engineering design and construction management services to implement the approved remedial approach(es) (CLIN 2). The A & E Contractor serves as USAID's strategic and technical advisor throughout the Project implementation period and as USAID's eyes and ears overseeing the work of other USAID contractors at Project.
. Awarded Vendors: Trigon Associates, LLC.. Contract Award Dollar Amount: $33,404,557.00. Contract Award Date: 2018-11-29.